The purpose of this paper is to theoretically assess, from a welfare perspective, the desirability of uniform import … tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

We study the effects on trade from the annual tariff uncertainty about China's MFN status renewal prior to joining the … uncertain future increases in tariffs. Second, even though the trade response can be quite large, the probability of a tariff …

sectoral heterogeneity, intermediate goods and sectoral linkages for the quantification of the welfare gains from tariffs …

import tariff. We analyze the determinants of the cross-country distribution of trade volumes, such as size, tariffs and … estimate the gains of a world-wide trade elimination of tariffs, using the theory to explain the magnitude of the gains as well … as the differential effect arising from cross-country differences in pre-liberalization of tariffs levels and country …

preference by economists for factor or product taxes and subsidies over tariffs and export subsidies may not be justified in this …

We investigate the effects of higher tariffs on the current account.Tariffs may increase or decrease investment … depending on the capital intensity of the sector protected. We find that ther esponse of saving to tariffs issensitive to the …), saving fallswith higher tariffs. This result may, however, be reversed in the Blanchard-Yaarj type model in which consumers …

We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate … the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We … find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent …

Direct empirical evidence on whether domestic consumers or foreign exporters bear the burden of a country's import … impact on the import price, whereas about 40 percent of a tariff increase is passed through to consumer prices and 60 percent …